Blue Acara: Am I blind?

[cawah]

Hi! Today I walked into a LFS, and they had a tank full of different kinds of fish, one of them being blue acaras. I asked the guy there which was the blue acara since none of them looked familiar to me, and he pointed to a fish with a red belly near the front of the body.

According to google images, none of the pictures of blue acaras there have a red belly.

?_? Is he right? Does a blue acara have a red belly? If not, which fish does?

 

[kool_sk8a]

well i have never seen a blue acara with a red belly...but they may get them during breeding. another simular fish which has a red belly is a firemouth cichlid, could have been one of those.

 

[fishydude22]

Blue Acara's don't have red bellies. Since there was an assortment of fish then it could have been a firemouth, or a red terror, u never know . Were these assorted fish all cichlids???

people at lfs' and lps' don't know much*thumbsdow i call them wannabees*crazysmil

 

[420Loach]

cant be as clueless as my lfs. they had jack dempsys listed as blue acaras. then when i tell them they look at me like im speaking alien.

 

[fishydude22]

well, despite how bad the fish stock of my lfs is, i always check other stores across town. One fish store needs to give their employees a little lesson on how to spell!. I was looking at some Red Marlboro Discus, and it was listed as Red Marbro discus *laughingc . Then i look a little further, to some juvinile Jack Dempsey's listed as Jack Dumpsy's*laughingc

Then they got a cichlid listed as Unknown Cichlid because nobody knows what it is!, but yet they can mark it as Aggressive, funny how that works eh?*crazysmil

And they mark a Green Terror as Semi Aggressive*crazysmil

 

[cawah]

Thanks! Just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going crazy. I guess from now on, before I buy any fish, I'll have to bring my research along =D

 

[offish]

you're not going crazy, and by the way they dont get a red belly when breeding as I had some do just that years back and there was no red in sight!

 

[nynick]

I was offered a 7 inch Apistogramma!!!!!!when calling a local shop to check what they had. Maybe it was the infamous Apistogramma Greatwhitesharkius